I disagree with your use of the word "talent" (except for Rece Davis), but I digress.

Yes, how terrible it is that the poors are getting their health insurance while more than 8 in 10 of the rest of us suffer...no meaningful consequences whatsoever.

Although I realize in practice it would be very difficult to not marry someone you care deeply about because you have different attitudes about money, I can attest to this advice. Supposedly money is the #1 source of tension in marriages. I didn't really plan it this way, but I was fortunate enough to marry someone…

I get what you're saying. I think people hear "inheritance" and it invokes ideas of entitlement or free money. To me, taking care of minors or young adults is not a matter of indulgence, it's a matter of responsibility. They're two separate issues.

There probably is a threshold in there somewhere, but let's be honest,…

I've never understood the mindset of building up some huge nest egg specifically for the purposes of leaving it to your kids. While I agree in principle that it can spoil them, by the time they get it they are likely to be middle-aged or older themselves, with established careers and families, so it's not as if…

Timothy...one quibble with this story...I am an ISU fan and I can tell you that in no way is Paul Rhoads on the hot seat, even after the 1-3 start and the loss to FCS school UNI. He might (*might*) be in danger if he lost out the rest of this season and had a disastrous 2014. But as of now he has so much goodwill…

I have been on interviews at plenty of companies. Certainly enough to know that very few of them are hiring for substance rather than superficial "confidence" and "positivity."

**Second disclaimer: confidence also does not equal competence.

Why can't this happen to Miami Heat fans?

I don't know what we're doing right in my house, but we have a family of four (two kids ages 6 and 4) and don't come anywhere near even the thrifty plan. I assume part of this might be cost of living adjustments, since I'm in the Midwest and things are generally less expensive here.

I use Lastpass. I pay $20/year to get Lastpass + Xmarks premium services. I had read about Lastpass for years but never invested the time until about 18 months ago on a day off. I spent an afternoon really getting familiar with its features. Importing my 300-400 logins and passwords - including using Lastpass'…

After trying Do Not Track Me, I switched to Disconnect on Lifehacker's recommendation a month or two ago. But I found it was really slowing down a lot of pages - particularly those with a lot of trackers, which makes sense but was still cumbersome. And I kept it in my navigation bar along the bottom of my Firefox, and…

And Feedly does have a list mode. I prefer it myself...it's very comparable to Google Reader in the browser. I was never much for RSS on a mobile device (or in the rare instances I did, it was a tablet rather than a phone), but it appears to work well on the phone too.

Oh, I see...you mean you can't install the extension at work. Didn't think about that. If it's any consolation Feedly does seem to be moving pretty rapidly with its feature adds, and going extension-free was something that seemed to be a high priority for them. So hopefully it won't be long.

Feedly says it is working on standalone browser functionality, so (presumably) at some point we'll be able to uninstall the extension. For as important a tool as an RSS reader is for me I don't mind an extension, if it syncs across browsers and devices.

It's easy to learn more about where your retirement funds are going.

When you say, "I plan to retire at 20xx" plan, do you mean that's the fund they told you to invest in? Many 401(k) plans these days have these types of target-date funds where you just pick the year closest to the year you hope to retire, and they make the investment choices for you. Is that what you're talking about?

This is a very, VERY general guideline, and I caution that I'm not a financial planner - though I am a huge personal finance geek and have read a lot on the subject. But the consensus these days seems to be that if you can put the equivalent of 15% or more of your salary away, you should be in pretty good shape. That…

We've had some pretty good success with always telling our kids well in advance what's about to happen. If we're going shopping and then to a restaurant, we plant the seed early so there are no surprises when play time gets cut off early in the afternoon.

I think the answer to this is no and in fact I was just having this discussion yesterday. The same holds true for tablets, though to a lesser extent.